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Lynne Plowman “The Beachcomber” Album Release

I’ve read somewhere: on Chesil Beach,
the sea sorts pebbles, each from each,
from large to small,
and smooths them all (…)

“Fred to Samantha”, from Songs of the Sea Dreamer by Russell Hoban

We at Composers Edition are delighted to share the news of the release of Lynne Plowman’s new album The Beachcomber on the Prima Facie label, Friday 25th September.

Lynne Plowman with Michael Bennett and Sandrine Chatron (tenor and harp)

Two works – A Field Guide to Pebbles (five short pieces for percussion duo) and Songs of the Sea Dreamer (a song-cycle for tenor and harp – settings of four poems by Russell Hoban) – form the framework of this album. The songs are intertwined with short instrumental solos and duos, telling a story of love, loneliness and the sea.

The works of this album spans twenty years of Lynne Plowman’s music. Plowman comments:

Curating this album has brought together themes and sound-worlds in my music that perhaps I hadn’t connected before.

Composers Edition is proud to publish all but two of the works of this album:

1. Logs and Shells
Percussion Duo (from A Field Guide to Pebbles – published by Composers Edition)

Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox (O Duo percussion duo)

2. Fred to Samantha
Tenor and Harp (from Songs of the Sea Dreamer – published by Composers Edition)

3. Pedalling Man
Percussion Duo (from A Field Guide to Pebbles – published by Composers Edition)

4. Mermaid
Tenor and Harp (from Songs of the Sea Dreamer – published by Composers Edition)

5. Panjangle
Percussion Duo (from A Field Guide to Pebbles – published by Composers Edition)

6. The Mermaids’ Lagoon
Solo Harp

7. Lullaby for Ianto
Solo Piano – published by Composers Edition

8. Harrison’s Stone
Percussion Duo (from A Field Guide to Pebbles – published by Composers Edition)

9. Another set of footprints in the snow (after Debussy)
Solo Piano – published by Composers Edition

10. Long, Lone
Tenor and Harp (from Songs of the Sea Dreamer – published by Composers Edition)

11. Bell Patterns
Percussion Duo (from A Field Guide to Pebbles – published by Composers Edition)

12. The Owl-Woman
Tenor and Harp (from Songs of the Sea Dreamer – published by Composers Edition)

13. floating turning spinning
Oboe d’amore and Harp

14. Rain
Percussion Duo – published by Composers Edition

Artists
Michael Bennett, tenor
Sandrine Chatron, harp
Oliver Cox, percussion
Owen Gunnell, percussion
James Harrison, percussion
Joanna Lam, piano
Jinny Shaw, oboe d’amore
Lucy Wakeford, harp

Track 12, ‘The Owl-Woman’, is available as a FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD

This recording has been generously supported by the RVW Trust and Prima Facie Records.



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